Springfield, IL--congrats!!!!! Top in crime!

[iris lily]

For once my city wasn't in a top crime list.

But Springfields,IL? REALLY? Can we blame this on Obama? He did spend a lot of time there.

The others in the top list I can understand: FLint, Memphis, Detroit, I understand.
Springfield, I do not. Fawn what are ya'll doing over there?

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/am...ties-2011.html

[Rosemary]

I don't even live there and my car was broken into - one Christmas Eve.

[Jemima]

I used to live in Illinois, and Springfield is just like state capitols everywhere - they roll up the sidewalks at quitting time-for government workers-and the downtown area becomes dangerous. (However if I'd been asked to guess which small Illinois city was the worst, I would have pick East St. Louis.)

Harrisburg, PA, is the much the same. You can't walk more than three blocks from the Capitol Complex without landing in slums that look dang scary even during the day. There are expensive and elegant homes along the waterfront, but I bet all of those people have a good security system and stay in at night.

[Float On]

I would of never thought that about Springfield, IL. We spend quite a bit of time there and have never heard of a high crime rate.

[Fawn]

Yeah, we Springfieldians were pretty befuddled by the report.

I mean, there are parts of Springfield that I would not go to w/o a police escort. About 3 blocks square.

Maybe they are including the parking tickets at University of Illinois at Springfield in the statistics?

[Tradd]

Well, you do have the governors that keep being sent to jail!

[Fawn]

Well, you do have the governors that keep being sent to jail!

Yeah, but they are all from Chicago! Nobody has lived in the governor's mansion since Edgar.

[domestic goddess]

Yeah, and all those politicians (and crooked governors) robbing us blind must account for some of the crime rates.

[ctg492]

Perhaps it is my ripe old age of 50, but I swear in the last year it seems everywhere got bad. I ask myself daily if it is the Media, local news papers trying to get the best shocking headline to sell papers or the broadcast. Where is safe I ask myself daily??? I used to think the rural area was better then the city. Not anymore, it seems. Meth labs out in rural northern Mi, where I used to think the Amish only wandered.

[Fawn]

ctg--never fear!

Because of my work, I go into every neighborhood of (apparently) one of the most dangerous cities ever.

Two times in 22 years have I had a bad feeling about my circumstance. By keeping my body between the danger and the door, have manged to escape both times w/o harm.

There is a big difference between real danger and imagined danger and it is a good idea to know the difference and what defences might work, i.e a shotgun vs. martial arts vs. simple self defence and a 911 call.